Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: >> I was thinking of copying the old root partition with >> sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd > I think the command rsync is a better approach for this task. It has > much more features, for example, you can exclude certain files. Thanks for the suggestion. Could you offer a precise command for copying the system from / to /mnt/hd , say? Would one exclude /dev or /proc , for example? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland